The lobster navigators

Thomas Alerstam ()
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Nature, 2003, vol. 421, issue 6918, 27-28

Abstract: When experimentally displaced in geomagnetic space, spiny lobsters act as if to make their way home. This is a fascinating case of navigation by an invertebrate using a magnetic map sense.

Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1038/421027a

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